Sunday Shift - The Ultimate Smash and Grab?

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  • @TomtheTaxiDriver
    @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад +8

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    • @ryanoverlay4592
      @ryanoverlay4592 Месяц назад +3

      Gonna buy from this sponsor so you can earn enough to not do betterhelp anymore :)

  • @thechriswhewell
    @thechriswhewell Месяц назад +76

    You ought to get yourself an egg-timer Tom. When you set down, set the egg-timer for five/ten minutes. If you haven't seen a hand go up in that time, join a rank. It stops you from driving round for an hour and then giving up and joining a rank.

  • @WildlingatHeart
    @WildlingatHeart Месяц назад +48

    Shift video! "TOUCH!"

  • @howdan1985
    @howdan1985 Месяц назад +21

    Yes Tom! You dropping one your superb shift videos is "my idea of a very nice Saturday". Perfect.

  • @VasudevanManikandan
    @VasudevanManikandan 8 дней назад

    From Southampton Row, you should have gone forward Kingsway, right Parker St, right Newton St, left High Holborn, set down on the left is Holborn Hoxton hotel. Now the Holborn gyractory is time wasting!😅

  • @richardrichardw9520
    @richardrichardw9520 Месяц назад +2

    Love your videos Tom like to listen to your voice relaxes me after a busy day so thank you Sir

  • @MichaelEngel55
    @MichaelEngel55 Месяц назад +7

    Sunday has a rhythm all of its own. I find the best hours are 3 to 11pm

  • @simonhearn1202
    @simonhearn1202 Месяц назад +5

    Mum & Dad got married at that St Paul's Church Hammersmith in the 50s 😊

  • @Stephen_Lafferty
    @Stephen_Lafferty Месяц назад +8

    16:27 - I'm looking to see if @CyclingMikey is waiting at the lights!

  • @oneteaminbristolbcfc
    @oneteaminbristolbcfc Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for this Tom really enjoyed it

  • @oldmanc2
    @oldmanc2 Месяц назад

    Excellent video - Sunday is more fun!

  • @jamiejosh96
    @jamiejosh96 Месяц назад +3

    Enjoy the videos Tom, keep them coming

  • @JustinW-ub4nw
    @JustinW-ub4nw Месяц назад +2

    Keep the videos rolling our way And you are the best taxi RUclipsr. You make me want to be a taxi driver

  • @kphedges1
    @kphedges1 Месяц назад

    Great video Tom good to see a Sunday shift.

  • @Ukdemon-gz5xf
    @Ukdemon-gz5xf Месяц назад +1

    As a newbie to your videos must admit I do enjoy , does make me laugh when you say “20 min before the next job etc” you really need to try rural taxi driving 20 mins between jobs for me would be a mega day lol

  • @marcdavis6823
    @marcdavis6823 27 дней назад

    Love it your spot on with the slow punters gives your the right hump.
    Be lucky mate

  • @SajoMt
    @SajoMt Месяц назад +3

    no way you referenced mick foley in a cab driving video🔥you're so real

  • @rollingtroll
    @rollingtroll Месяц назад +2

    Actually, now you mention toilet breaks; When in London; what would you do if you needed a toilet? Especially in the evening? I usually just walk into a Pret but they can close quite early. I find that finding a toilet in the evening can be quite a challenge.

  • @martinfoskett7697
    @martinfoskett7697 Месяц назад +1

    Brilliant video missed theses ones 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @JustinW-ub4nw
    @JustinW-ub4nw Месяц назад +2

    Thx for the amazing videos

  • @ryandoherty6174
    @ryandoherty6174 Месяц назад

    What an amazing shift! I'm surprised there aren't more cabbies starting up!?

  • @howdan1985
    @howdan1985 Месяц назад +4

    Thanks!

  • @Daniboi1703
    @Daniboi1703 Месяц назад +1

    As some insight, here in Singapore (and probably other countries) many taxi drivers don't know local roads, hence you gotta give them a general area before then directing them once you get there. Probably explains the lads at 24:30.

  • @harrisonjames7489
    @harrisonjames7489 Месяц назад +3

    Remember Eastbourne Terrace is 1st then Westbourne . Keep the East and West together. Thats how i remember it.

  • @m4hf
    @m4hf Месяц назад

    Afternoon Thomas, appreciate the upload 🎉

  • @bdeithrick
    @bdeithrick Месяц назад

    Loving the music from John Cadogans Mingmoles

  • @greigs9384
    @greigs9384 Месяц назад

    Argyll Sq’s a good job from The Berkeley, if it had been a punter from the hotel it would be another round the corner one.

  • @Zipperzapper_
    @Zipperzapper_ Месяц назад

    Finally a Shift video again! ❤

  • @mw...
    @mw... Месяц назад

    Great video Tom. I reckon if I were a cabbie I’d work every Sunday. Exempt when a group of nutters are marching…

  • @Bobzz023
    @Bobzz023 Месяц назад +4

    Come back in 56 days Tom. No need to use red lion square just Parker Street R Newton Street L High Holborn sdol for the Hoxton hotel 👍🏻

    • @TomtheTaxiDriver
      @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад +2

      I very rarely do that… everyday is a school day 😂

  • @dannyhancock9330
    @dannyhancock9330 Месяц назад +3

    Love the videos Tom. I find it so relaxing to virtually drive around town with you. I'm always surprised at how much of London I know! Even though I don't tend to stray beyond my little corner of this city very often. A question for you about London Airports. You obviously can pick up from Heathrow, City and I imagine Gatwick. But what about London Luton and Stanstead? Would they be worthwhile even if you can?

  • @frankberkemeier
    @frankberkemeier Месяц назад

    Raise hell, praise Dale. Great vid. Cheers.

  • @mjtransport
    @mjtransport Месяц назад +2

    Hi Tom, love the videos mate. I'm a sameday courier based in Sheffield. The sameday delivery industry allegedly grew from the black cab trade in the 60's and 70's. It'd be awesome if you did a video covering that period of how they started delivering whilst also running passengers around London. Keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus Месяц назад

    Nice shift video!

  • @dukeofdevon5608
    @dukeofdevon5608 Месяц назад

    Gutted you didn’t use Garrick street which you seem to say in every video 😂😂

  • @saidbouki5942
    @saidbouki5942 Месяц назад

    Thanks

  • @user-ym1mu1yt4d
    @user-ym1mu1yt4d Месяц назад

    Any good apps for calling black cabs other than Gett or Freenow? The only reason I still use Ubers is because it’s hard to find a cab in the area I live in

  • @mousquetaire86
    @mousquetaire86 Месяц назад

    Random facts: Margaret Thatcher used to live in Chester Square....and in Clarges Street is Aragawa, where steaks cost around £750.

  •  Месяц назад

    Would be super if you got them dodgy Hampstead's fixed. Get it done and be proud !!

    • @TomtheTaxiDriver
      @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад

      I got a quote… £4k. Not a £4k problem if you ask me

  • @colingerard7863
    @colingerard7863 Месяц назад

    Hi Tom. What were you overheads for the day against what you made in fares. Thank you and have a busy day.

  • @astro27132
    @astro27132 Месяц назад

    How does the advertising on black cabs work? As I know you are your own boss as such, do advertising agencies approach cabbies or do you? Great video as always

  • @emilyrowan8779
    @emilyrowan8779 Месяц назад

    Hi again Tom, please can you let me know a rough cost of me getting a cab in July from outside Euston Station to Victoria Station, around 1.30pm. I've got train tickets but because of my disabilities I don't want to do this leg of my journey via train. Thank you in anticipation 🤗

  • @danielbuck7556
    @danielbuck7556 Месяц назад

    Do you ever pick up from major events at football stadium / gigs at Wembley etc ?

  • @georgeashton8578
    @georgeashton8578 Месяц назад

    Great tom

  • @user-lf6ls9vb5y
    @user-lf6ls9vb5y Месяц назад +1

    Class vid tom, especially since i got my drop to 28s.

    • @TomtheTaxiDriver
      @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад +2

      Cherish those moments when your knowledge is on fire 🔥 film yourself calling as a memory of being at that gold standard, as my videos show, the street names will gradually disappear from memory 😬

    • @1eddwood
      @1eddwood Месяц назад

      Wait till you’ve done 21 years , you’ll remember f all

    • @briantaylor5242
      @briantaylor5242 Месяц назад

      Plus you can purchase a new taxi for £100k

  • @ybe7383
    @ybe7383 Месяц назад

    Hello, did you have an application to receive races. I'm a taxi in Paris and we have an application

  • @TheJaydipe
    @TheJaydipe Месяц назад

    What days/times do you find London the busiest nowadays? Is it still Tuesday to Thursday, evenings? I’ve felt London has been pretty quiet in general for some reason

  • @Jasongvl
    @Jasongvl Месяц назад

    Great vid again mate! Question- do you get/how do you deal with road rage on the daily?

    • @TomtheTaxiDriver
      @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад +3

      I don't, wouldn't be in this job if I got road rage. You just have to let everything go.

  • @ebismusic8813
    @ebismusic8813 Месяц назад

    Once you start shift video you have to complete 😊

  • @torspedia
    @torspedia Месяц назад

    Will you be doing anymore Sunday shifts?

  • @johnorchin8567
    @johnorchin8567 Месяц назад

    Hi Tom, Is this something that all London cabbies do, and is it recognised as being the correct way to do the job……driving around the side streets to avoid being stationary at lights. Perhaps customers feel more anxious if they are watching the meter tick over whilst being stationary at lights.

    • @drummerboy1390
      @drummerboy1390 Месяц назад +3

      They also get anxious rattling around side streets. They can think you’re taking a long route. Sometimes you just can’t win.

  • @knightsorder
    @knightsorder Месяц назад

    DIDNT KNOW THEY HAD GATED places in london town

  • @zulfqarali905
    @zulfqarali905 Месяц назад

    Hi 😅Tom please when you feel like going early anyday home don't do it 😢Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall

  • @disrealnow9664
    @disrealnow9664 Месяц назад +2

    19:24 KOL check 👮‍♂you did a right from Haverstock Hill (not Rosslyn Hill) into Belsize Grove (not Belsize Park Gardens) 😉

  • @Flubbydubbydoodoo
    @Flubbydubbydoodoo Месяц назад +8

    When did Londoners start referring to it as “Central” rather than the “West End”?

    • @bigjml
      @bigjml Месяц назад +1

      People who work in London call it Central.

    • @Flubbydubbydoodoo
      @Flubbydubbydoodoo Месяц назад

      @@bigjml Not when I lived in London in the 90s. So it has changed since then. No-one called it Central back then.

    • @bigjml
      @bigjml Месяц назад

      @@Flubbydubbydoodoo Yes they did
      If you work for a living, Taxi, Chauffeur, Courier or Minicab.
      It’s always been called Central.
      Short for Central London.
      Not that complicated to understand.
      I don’t know what commuters, Bus Drivers or Security Guards call it.

    • @peteinessex5025
      @peteinessex5025 Месяц назад +1

      I've called it Central for as long as I can remember. The area spans from the City right up to Westminster if not beyond. The West End to me is the theatre district within Central - Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Oxford Street etc.

  • @pkvids23
    @pkvids23 Месяц назад

    Can you be pre booked? Looking for Paddington to king cross premier inn hub soon.

    • @TomtheTaxiDriver
      @TomtheTaxiDriver  Месяц назад

      Due to the time taken it's easier and cheaper to grab a taxi from the rank. Approximately £18-£20 on the meter depending on conditions and time of day.

    • @pkvids23
      @pkvids23 Месяц назад

      @@TomtheTaxiDriver ah but I want to meet the legend 👍

    • @rangers7694
      @rangers7694 Месяц назад

      Stalker alert 😅

    • @pkvids23
      @pkvids23 Месяц назад

      @@rangers7694 idiot

  • @yoshiadams2349
    @yoshiadams2349 Месяц назад

    Tom

  • @HCProds1
    @HCProds1 Месяц назад

    Why didn’t they just go to the front of the hotel in the first place?

  • @jasonlansdown2758
    @jasonlansdown2758 Месяц назад

    Higher tariff on Sunday?

  • @louiszammitt4058
    @louiszammitt4058 Месяц назад

    You should do a night shift video mate

  • @Isaac-sf4zl
    @Isaac-sf4zl Месяц назад +3

    What does "legals me the fare" mean??

    • @sahu
      @sahu Месяц назад +2

      I was thinking the same thing. I think it means pays with exact change. So if the fare was 7 pound 40 pence, she gave the exact amount. Or give 8 pounds and asked for change.

  • @simonhickey4923
    @simonhickey4923 Месяц назад +2

    Long hours for minimum wage the game has finished

    • @1eddwood
      @1eddwood Месяц назад

      Agree , 21 years pushing a cab in
      London

    • @Mr225_____
      @Mr225_____ 28 дней назад

      Sorry but how is £9 in 4 minutes minimum wage? £300 in a day? How’s that minimum wage???

  • @robbieelliottoutandabout1103
    @robbieelliottoutandabout1103 Месяц назад +1

    Try doing s shift in Blackpool be gd RUclips content

  • @jamiejosh96
    @jamiejosh96 Месяц назад +3

    15:25 …. What does legals you the fair mean?

  • @ricardop6303
    @ricardop6303 Месяц назад

    What is the longest you've had to wait to pick up passengers?

  • @zulfqarali905
    @zulfqarali905 Месяц назад

    Hi keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall Tom Londons greatest showman 😊😅😮😢😂🎉

  • @OG_Rider
    @OG_Rider Месяц назад

    Should Black cabs always be black? 🖤

    • @briantaylor5242
      @briantaylor5242 Месяц назад +1

      No years ago they did then in 1970/80s drivers could buy a new taxi other than black.

  • @cityzens634
    @cityzens634 Месяц назад +1

    You seem different how you look and talking slower

  • @xxproskill4273
    @xxproskill4273 Месяц назад +1

    t

  • @theridiculousnicolaus
    @theridiculousnicolaus Месяц назад

    🫡